> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:05:51PM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote: > > Maybe yum could be modified to allow you to download the updates to the > > cache without installing them > > Not much need for this, really. 'yum check-update' will produce not > only a status but a list of packages if any available. Feeding that > to a program (lftp, wget, .... ) which will retrieve those from > suitable mirrors is not that complicated. > > Michal Sorry for jumping in here so late, I haven't really followed the discussion closely but I just thought I should mention this. One of the offices I set up had a slow internet connection and getting updates to all the computers was tricky. The caching proxy SQUID when set-up in transparent proxying mode caused the updates to download extremely fast for each subsequent computer that installed updates after the first computer downloaded it. I suspect that you could just install a SQUID cache (not in transparent proxying mode) and tell yum to use it as a proxy server, allowing you to basically just proxy your updates. We even found a few tricks that allowed us to cache Microsoft's Windows updates and our antivirus software's updates (both of which send headers to prevent caching) allowing us to drastically reduce our bandwidth requirements. Just some food for thought. Sorry if this was completely off-topic. -- Matthew Nuzum <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> www.followers.net - Makers of "Elite Content Management System" View samples of Elite CMS in action by visiting http://www.elitecms.com -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
